Six weeks ago, no one believed that there was a corner of France where they could gather a hundred men together, and now they are everywhere in arms." "I think," Maignan said, "that you need not be uneasy about the Queen of Navarre.

I am not at liberty to say what I have heard; but I fancy that, before many hours, she will be on her way to Paris, willingly or unwillingly.

As for the seneschal, he and the others will be hunted down, as soon as this matter is settled.

A day or two, sooner or later, will make no difference there and, until the queen is taken, the troops will have to stay in their present stations.
"My only fear is that, seeing she can have no hope of making her way north, she will slip away back to Navarre again.

Once there, she could not be taken without a deal of trouble.